Akira yoshizawa

Elephant, designed by Akira Yoshizawa and folded by Himanshu Agrawal (source: ) #origami #elephant

A huge exhibition of 80 contemporary origami artists featuring 120 paper creations is planned to take place this summer at Cooper Union in New York. Cooper Union was the site of the first origami exhibition in the United States 55 years ago. Titled Surface to Structure , the event is curated by Uyen Nguyen whoContinue reading "Surface to Structure: An Origami Exhibition Featuring 80 Paper Artists at Cooper Union"

Akira Yoshizawa is noted as the grandfather of Origami for his drastic contribution to the art. Born in Kaminokawa, Japan on March 14th, 1911, Yoshizawa as a child loved teaching himself Origami. H…

Sounds like an anomaly, right? When I was a kid folding frogs, my mother gave me origami paper that was most certainly dry. But the works below by Vietnamese-American artist Giang Dinh were folded with one *wet* piece of paper. It's a technique called "Wet-Folding", invented by the great Japanese origami master Akira Yushizawa (pictured right).

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Self-Portrait (origami) by Akira Yoshizawa, 2011

Self portrait in origami by Grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa.

Most of us are probably familiar with the geometric type of origami, however, only a few know that this paper art can also be produced with curved paper forms using a difficult art technique known as “wet-folding”. This 3D sculpting technique requires a lot of patience and skill so there are not a lot of artists who have mastered it.

Akira Yoshizawa origami rabbit